Submitting well planned articles on-line will increase traffic and can even launch your career when handled right. They'll drive traffic from all over the net and show an excellent return on your time invested.
Write Your Article Like You're Writing to a Friend
Even though it may be seen by thousands, each copy gets read by one person at a time. Your readers are more open if you're speaking directly to them instead of down at them. Replace big words with simple words. I've heard that writing at an eighth grade level will increase comprehension.
Write a Killer Headline
An amazing article can end up going nowhere because the headline sucked a lemon and nobody read it. Any marketer who knows their stuff will tell you the headline is 80% - 90% of the reason you're even considered. Write a great article of course, but spend lots of time on your headline.
Pick a Topic You Know Well
Assuming you've done your research and found a niche you like that's profitable, you can become an expert in that field because you'll stay with it. If the research is a chore it's easy to lose interest.
Educate But Don't Sell
Articles are thought of as nuggets of information that educate. If your article breaks that unwritten rule and is actually an advertisement in disguise, it'll never see the light of another monitor. A well written article is a subtle but powerful way to motivate someone. Advertising builds barriers, where news is accepted with an open mind.
Write Quality not Quantity
There's no room for fluff in a good article. When reading the posting guidelines, check the restrictions for article length. Stay within the word count or you'll get trashed. It's usually 500 - 600 words. Save your full length version for sites that'll accept it.
Include a Resource Box With Your "Call to Action" Link
Either at the bottom or the top of your article you'll want to include your name, describe what you do, a sign-up email if you're building a newsletter, your website link, a short call to action, whatever's appropriate.
Submit Articles Consistently
Writing and submitting articles consistently will assure growing returns. Some sites will accept your work others won't, so don't get discouraged. Make a schedule, stick to your deadlines and "Just do it"
Read The Posting Guidelines at Each Site
When posting your article follow the guidelines. Don't forget, behind every website and ezine a real person decides the fate of your article. You're asking for exposure to their data base, so take your time and be nice.
Don't Forget The Spell Check
There's nothing worse for a busy web master than wading through spelling errors. Do a spell check, print it off and read it out loud to catch grammatical errors.
Use a Tracking System
With proper tracking you'll see what worked and what didn't. It'll show where to spend more time and drop what's not working. Monitored tracking will increase your return on investment, both for time and money.
Organize your submissions with the Brain-Floss article directory and Article Optimizer? software.
C/O Dwain Berlin
Free promotional tools for on-line entrepreneurs
*** Attn. Ezine editors / Site owners ***
Feel free to reprint this article in it's entirety in your ezine or on your site so long as you leave all links in place, do not modify the content and include my resource box as listed above.
Dwain Berlin - All Rights Reserved
Article Optimizer ?
About The Author
Dwain Berlin is the author of "The Upward Spiral" a lifestyle health program based on evolution. He presently runs a prescription export service from Canada, and created the "Brain-Floss" Article Optimizer system to help on-line entrepreneurs promote their work.
best cleaning company Highland Park ..1. Write to one person.When you're writing your article picture... Read More
How are you marketing your articles? As a writer prospecting... Read More
Are you a reluctant marketer for your book? Do you... Read More
Article writing can be such an intimate act as you're... Read More
Finding something to write about can be frustrating for all... Read More
How does a writing agency market itself effectively in a... Read More
Being an Internet Article Author is far and away the... Read More
Writing and leveraging articles is my most successful strategy for... Read More
If you're writer, I am sure sometimes you may have... Read More
Thanks to recent information that leaked by Google within their... Read More
Last month, I began promoting Jason Potash's "Article Announcer." I... Read More
When I started Ezine-In-A-Box I wanted to help people publish... Read More
Search Engines are constantly on the "look out" for freshly... Read More
Sometimes when I am communicating with other webmasters and I... Read More
"Ten Tips" articles are the easiest piece to write because... Read More
The key to selling reprints to parenting publications is the... Read More
Feeling uninspired? Like you're stuck in a rut with your... Read More
Now that you see that articles are the number one... Read More
It is no secret among internet marketers that writing articles... Read More
Selling books online means that you need to get interested... Read More
If you market online, whether it be your own information... Read More
Here's a really simple way... to promote your online business... Read More
By now you probably understand how important writing for trade... Read More
Queries are not written like business letters or emails; they... Read More
Determining keywords is a critical step in writing articles online... Read More
high-end home cleaning Winnetka ..Writing dozens, hundreds or even thousands of articles and making... Read More
You've already agreed that putting some of your best articles... Read More
Often all the Web Surfer will see is your title,... Read More
Original quotes, when used at the beginning or at the... Read More
Most writers I talk with who experience "writer's block" do... Read More
Looking to build your freelance writing career but don't know... Read More
"But I've only been on the Internet 3 months! How... Read More
Are you looking for a better way to promote your... Read More
Heard about article marketing but not sure why you'd need... Read More
The goal of free publicity is to get your name... Read More
We all know that article writing is a great way... Read More
Getting people to join your company can be hard work.... Read More
Writing articles is one of the best and most effective... Read More
This is Part 2 of a 2 part article -... Read More
When you create your articles in TextPad format, something like... Read More
Do you have problems finding ideas for articles and speeches?I... Read More
It is amazing to see how much we all still... Read More
If you write web content, it may be a mystery... Read More
You've written this wonderful (no question about it) piece of... Read More
Take a look around the Web and you'll find thousands... Read More
How are you marketing your articles? As a writer prospecting... Read More
Every successful website needs to be, what the experts consider,... Read More
IntroductionThere are two ways to submit to magazine editors.One is... Read More
Part 1 of a 2-part series To read Part 2... Read More
Whether you own your own affiliate website, or subscription website,... Read More
Article Writing |